BTS’ J-Hope to complete military duty

J-Hope, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, will be discharged from his 18 months of mandatory military service Thursday, becoming the band’s second member to complete his service after the oldest member Jin.

J-Hope enlisted in April and has been …

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(EDITORIAL from Korea JoongAng Daily on Oct. 17)

An ill-intended order from Myung Tae-kyun, a self-proclaimed “political broker,” to manipulate the results of an opinion poll during the primary of the then-opposition People Power Party (PPP) is shocking. Myung is at the center of the controversy ov…

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(EDITORIAL from Korea Times on Oct. 17)

North Korea has severed the remnants of inter-Korean reconciliation by demolishing sections of roads linked to an overland railway. These roads were part of the Gyeongui and Donghae lines, connecting the two Koreas on the west and east coasts, origin…

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(EDITORIAL from Korea Herald on Oct. 17)

Myung Tae-kyun, a shadowy figure at the center of suspicions that first lady Kim Keon Hee may have intervened in the ruling party’s nomination races, disclosed on Tuesday a screen capture of text messages he and Kim exchanged in 2021.

“You will see …

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